The football star, who recently made a switch to Sampdoria in Italy,? is said to have splashed out a whopping sum of £18.5m on the historic property in Portofino, near Genoa in northern Italy.According to Corriere Dello Sport, the newly acquired mansion has a total number of 40 rooms and a swimming pool and is surrounded by 30,000 square metres of rolling parkland along the Tyrrhenian coast near the fishing village of Portofino. Experts say it needs up to €3m of renovation work to restore it to its former glory. Cameroon star Eto’o, 33, who is currently living in a hotel, is said to want to “make a palace of his own there”. The £18.5million Italian mansion was said to have been bought despite locals warning him it is haunted by the curse of the Tutankhamun.The Cameroonian footballer has purchased the historic property in Portofino, near Genoa in northern Italy. The property, called Villa Altachiara, was previously owned by Lord Carnarvon, who was known to be jinxed with the ‘Curse of the Pharaoh’. Lord Carnarvon was working with famous English archaeologist Howard Carter when they discovered the tomb of Ancient Egyptian ruler Tutankhamun, opening the ‘cursed’ burial plot on February 16 1923.Famously, of the 58 people present when Tutankhamun’s long-lost tomb was opened, eight died within a dozen years. Moreover, Lord Carnarvon bizarrely died after he got an infection after cutting a mosquito bite on his face while shaving. In addition, Lord Carnarvon’s nephew died in Villa Altachiara by falling down the stairs, while more recently, in 2001, former Gucci model and heiress Countess Francesca Agusta vanished from the cliff-top property. Those scary stories, however, have not deterred the former Chelsea and Everton man to buy Villa Altachiara. As to the property itself, the mansion has 40 rooms and 30,000 square-metres of land.
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Posted: at 18-02-2015 10:58 AM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
tokslucci at 18-02-2015 11:05 AM (10 years ago) (f)
hmmmmmmmm i no fit tok
Posted: at 18-02-2015 11:05 AM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
livinus5 at 18-02-2015 11:34 AM (10 years ago) (m)
Eto,Eto,Eto.how many times did i call you.You will never ceise to amaze me.How many of such do you have back at home.How many cameroonians have you helped?non in Bamenda to the best of my knowledge.As am typing one is weeping of common hunger by me since morning and you are there iliterate sense squandering our hard ear'ned money.Stupit Eto
Posted: at 18-02-2015 11:34 AM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
Eto,Eto,Eto.how many times did i call you.You will never ceise to amaze me.How many of such do you have back at home.How many cameroonians have you helped?non in Bamenda to the best of my knowledge.As am typing one is weeping of common hunger by me since morning and you are there iliterate sense squandering our hard ear'ned money.Stupit Eto
Haba?
Posted: at 18-02-2015 11:41 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
olamilogy at 18-02-2015 02:18 PM (10 years ago) (m)
fooling act money has blinded is brain and make it black if he build an estate in his country or invest it he wud knw how much it will yield. black man black sense
Posted: at 18-02-2015 02:18 PM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
You cant be smarter than oyinbo people. They wont allow you to go with your wealth to Africa. They will ensure a blackman becomes bankrupt and sell back the house to their won. When are we going to learn?. Check the history of all blacks in America, after making fortunes, they end up as near beggars!. Mike Tyson, Mohammed Alli, Michael Jackson?, where is the wealth of all those black musicians who won grammy award in the past?
Posted: at 18-02-2015 05:42 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie
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